Story 1

Story 1: The Land and Its People

A: Geography

• What are the characteristics of North America's physical regions?
• How do physical and climatic forces shape the land, past and future?

Activities:
(1 B is a mapping skills booklet)
(there is also a handout)



B: First Nations

• How did Aboriginal Peoples come to occupy North America?
• What does an ethnology of a First Nations group reveal about subsistence, geographic adaptation and culture?

Activities:

C: Early Contact

• Why and how did various cultures visit North America before the 1500s, and why did they leave?
• What patterns and impacts resulted from visits by Europeans in the 1500s?

Activities:



Wrap-up, presentations, and unit test.


Assessment summary:
Three verifications:

• A: Geography Skills
• B: First Nations Knowledge
• C: Early Contact

Project 1: Physiographic Map
Project 2: Aboriginal Cultural Study/Profile

Unit test